After August's "Do Not Adjust Your TV Set" moment and September's Tuesday Wednesday Happy Jaze headline*, the metaphorical TVs in Grimsby, and its diaspora, were displaying the "Normal Service Has Been Resumed" message last night.
* For our American viewers, 'Wednesday' refers to Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. The game was played on a Tuesday.
A tanking by the Bees of Brentford was only to be expected. The idea of going all the way to the final, qualifying for Europe, and away trips to Almaty and Košice, were just the dreams of a deranged mind. Mine.
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But there was no crying into the beer. And the outcome led to a more wide-ranging conversation in the London pub afterwards than would have been the case if the improbable had happened. One old geezer (i.e. me) reminisced about the early days of Channel 4, and this little beaut of a film (which I watched again this evening on Prime).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084459/
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